Top Blog Posts on ERP Corp Blog

Catch up on your blog reading and get up to date on the top 5 blog posts on the ERP Corp blog. 

1. Introduction to SAP Material Ledger by Paul Ovigele

Material Ledger is the SAP solution to performing actual costing. It is supposed to contain the benefits (without inheriting the disadvantages) of the two traditional methods of inventory valuation - Standard Costing and Moving Average Costing. Before you can understand the functionality of Material Ledger, it is always good to start with some of the characteristics of these two traditional approaches. Keep reading...

2. SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA - Frequently Asked Questions by Janet Salmon 

I’ve spent the last six months working with the first accounting customers to validate and implement SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA. I’ve talked with even more customers about the possibilities of the new solution. SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA will be made generally available on 1st August 2014. In this blog, I’ll explain how the new solution differs from earlier software versions and discuss some of my learnings. Keep reading...

3. Introduction to Results Analysis by Martin Munzel

Results Analysis is functionality in SAP Controlling to valuate ongoing, unfinished activities, such as production orders, internal orders or projects at month-end. The underlying assumption for each of these activities is that they will add value when they are finished – a production order will yield a finished product, while a customer project will eventually be billed to the customer. Keep reading...

4. PIR Usage in Costing Variants by Tanya Duncan

I recently used an interesting piece of configuration in the valuation variant to value externally and intercompany purchased materials.  My client has unique challenges because they are vertically integrated. They produce almost every raw material that goes in to their finished goods including packaging and the machinery to produce finished goods. The amount of intercompany purchases is massive and we needed a sustainable way to value purchased items and reference the purchasing conditions for intercompany markups and other charges like freight and shipping labor. This configuration is a multi-step process, but it’s fairly simple when you have all the pieces configured correctly. Keep reading...

5. Updating quantity fields in CO-PA by Paul Ovigele

If you are using the Controlling Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) module, then you know that the task of mapping various objects to value fields is the key to ensuring that the reports are complete and accurate. The normal scenario is to assign amount fields such as sales conditions, general ledger accounts and production variances. However, it is also important to map quantity fields such as sales and production quantities to value fields (which are set up with a “quantity” attribute in transaction KEA6). Most sales and contribution margin reports contain these quantity values (for example Net Weight of products sold) in order provide the appropriate context for the reported revenue and cost of sales figures. I will discuss the three main areas where you can make assignments to quantity fields in CO-PA. Keep reading...